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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*Rends un-e politicien-ne commestible* Anne Le Henaff

Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great news, our pilot website, which displays three editions of Punch's Pocket Book, is now accessible online! Very grateful to the academic and technical teams who worked on phase 1 of this project, including @l19cmanmet.bsky.social, @mrshcaen.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Thank you!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to VPR’s 2026 prizewinners: Mehran Ghandi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Sampurna Nandy (University of Bristol). They'll each receive $500 and publication in an upcoming issue of VPR. To learn more about our annual essay prizes, visit rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies

Flowered background with text that says: 2026 VPR Essay Prizes, Rosemary VanArsdel Prize, Mehran Ghandi, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Expanding the Field Prize, Sampurna Nandy, University of Bristol. To learn more about VPR’s annual prizes, visit https://rs4vp.org/awards.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Both amazing papers on transnational exchanges and the fight for free speech, from the Weimar Republic to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New York.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On my way back to Paris after three incredible days at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) for #ESPRit2026. Beyond the stimulating keynotes and panels, today's highlight was undoubtedly a tour of the library's printing museum with the lovely and knowledgeable Bart Op de Beeck. Many thanks to him!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three fascinating papers on image as the locus of a cultural conversation across time and space. Picture: Veronica Bassini (University of Genova) — “Beyond the Page: Non-Print Archives and the World of Illustrated Periodicals through the Pipein Gamba Fund” #ESPRit2026 #PeriodicalsandtheWorld

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed this panel about transcultural circulations across Europe, from Grand Tour travellers to the rebuilding of identities post-Risorgimento. #ESPRit2026 #PeriodicalsandtheWorld

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On my way to the Royal Library of Belgium to attend the ESPRit: European Society for Periodical Research annual conference! Picture: Robert and Isabella Bremner's passport (National Library of Scotland). I just love the "Bon pour la Belgique" visa stamp.

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Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The new issue of JEPS is out! Guest-edited by Anna Namestnikov and Gaëtan Regniers, it brings periodical and translation studies into conversation, alongside a field note and four book reviews. Read the issue here: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps #jeps #periodicalstudies #translationstudies

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 29/08/2026

Ok, we've had time to reminisce. It's time to look forward. We are thrilled to announce our CFP for #RSVP2027 is now live! We'll consider the theme of 'Structures' at our next annual gathering. The applications portal opens next week on 1 Sept. More details on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Check out the latest batch of book reviews in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57248 #VictorianStudies @rs4vp.org

Image of bookshelf accompanied by list of book reviews: Eleanor Bird, Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889, Reviewed by Mary L. Shannon; Marzena Kubisz, Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victoria Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change, Reviewed by Lesley Peterson; Ruth M. McAdams, Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature, Reviewed by Madeline B. Gangnes; Maria Damkjær, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, Reviewed by Teja Varma Pusapati; Sarah Dewis and Brent Elliott, eds., Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening, vol. 6, The Art of the Gardener, Reviewed by Chetna Jena, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 4, winter 2025.

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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There's still time to submit to our upcoming hybrid symposium with @punchspocketbook.bsky.social "Global Circulations - Annuals and Pocket Books on the Move" 26-27 November 2026, U of Caen, Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026!

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Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

20 days to go! The countdown is on to the 14th ESPRit Conference, ‘Periodicals & the World’, 9–11 Sept, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels. 3 days of how periodicals travel across regions, connect local & global cultures, & shape ideas of what constitutes the ‘world’: events.vub.be/periodicals-...

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Periodicals and the World

Since their inception, periodicals have travelled across regions, reporting on local and global events and developments, and shaping public discourse on wh...

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you work on the 19th-c press and are looking at bills for travel, repro fees, etc., applying for a Curran Fellowship should be a no-brainer. Not a lot of hoops to jump through, and the folks making the decisions are researchers just like you. These are open to anybody, of any age, anywhere. #C19

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking forward to presenting our ANR-funded international @punchspocketbook.bsky.social at the annual conf. of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) in Brussels, next month. "Roaming the World with Punch’s Pocket Book" will examine the annual from the viewpoint of intern. movement.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/08/2026

📢 It's Curran Fellowship time! These awards support research on #19thC periodicals as objects of study in their own right. Multiple awards of up to $6,000 (USD) are given each year, thanks to the generosity and enduring legacy of Eileen Curran. Apps due 15 Oct. Full guidelines here: buff.ly/Vw4Q3Tr

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Curran Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Punch's Pocket Book Archive has been selected for a substantial award from the @agencerecherche.bsky.social! This will allow us to create two jobs, and bring the project to completion in 2030. With thanks to @rs4vp.org, @l19cmanmet.bsky.social and all members of the project, past and present.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Working on manuscripts comes with wonderful suprises. These dried flowers are likely to have been picked and pressed by Isabella Bremner during her voyage to India, in 1853. #PunchsPocketBookArchiveProject

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Curran Index User Survey

Thanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And that’s a wrap on #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org 🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾 Photo: Pete Clarke

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So grateful to #RSVP2026 for these three wonderful days at Trinity College! It was a privilege to attend these amazing panels and plenaries.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Does anyone know if Andy Burnham likes cats?

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In today's mail, this wonderful edition of William B. Osgood Field's "John Leech on my Shelves," a catalogue raisonné of Field's extensive collection of original drawings, illustrated books, etchings and wood blocks, today kept at the Houghton Library, @harvard.edu

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wishing you all a happy, exciting, and creative new year!

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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It's #MapMonday! Here's a #map of #workhouses, #asylums, hospitals and dispensaries in #London, 1900. Take a closer look on @layersoflondon.bsky.social at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #VictorianHistory #BritishHistory #GIS #HGIS #MappyMonday

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Make a Bond film academic Student Loans are Forever.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

With thanks to @rs4vp.org for generously supporting the first steps of this project through the Patrick Leary Field Development Grant.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Tammany Scrapbooks in display at the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures. A thought for the late Brian Maidment, whose illuminating writings on the subject helped me understand and enjoy nineteenth-century scrapbooks.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Back in Cambridge, with fantastic memories of that NYC Thanksgiving weekend. Within the space of 3 days, I saw more treasures than that cartoon pirate hoarded, at the top of one of the Parade's floats. I also walked like a marathon and am aching in muscles I did not know existed. Roll on, Xmas!

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Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Punch's Pocket Book entry of the day: 'Nothing particular - Oyster dinner.' That may well be the title of my next paper. Fantastic day at the Robert D. Farber Archives and Special Collections, Brandeis University.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just wondering about the 'etc'...

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The great news of the day is that the New York Public Library holds W. M. Thackeray's very own Punch's Pocket Book for 1856, with ms. annotations about 'the fat of the land, claret in plenty & smoking too much.' What's not to like? Made an appointment to consult the resource next week.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

At Nottingham University, students and academics have just been informed of the possible closure of the Departement of Modern Languages. I signed this petition.

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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Seen today. Fascinating connections between social and political struggles, past and present. Great exhibition.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Triumph of Religion, John Singer Sargent's extraordinary murals at @bpl.boston.gov Boston Public Library. Madame X nowhere to be seen.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Many thanks to our wonderful speakers and audience, last Friday at the British Library, for our "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" event. Punch's Pocket Book Archive is now entering its second phase: keep in touch!

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Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

What a surprise to find a collection of Punches, today, on the shelves of the beautiful Kenwood House!

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The V&A East Storehouse is a sort of IKEArt: you just wander between racks full of furniture, tableware and decoration until you are caught by surprise by a giant cello or a 16th century Spanish ceiling (set up without an Allen key). Extraordinary.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Today's treat was a private 'sneak peek' of the British Library’s forthcoming special display commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Erudite and enlightening presentation by the BL curators. Enjoying that ATBL fellowship soooo much.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

...has been treated to a wonderful private view of Sambourne House/Leighton House collections and archives: drawers full of uncatalogued letters, pull-out sliding racks replete with sketches, pictures, and diaries, stimulating conversations with experts. I feel so lucky.

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Sean Penn. C'était ma critique de Une bataille après l'autre. #OneBattleAfterAnother #PTA

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, spring 2025; burgundy background with illustration of alien aircraft from H. G. Wells's _The War of the Worlds_.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A really fine summary of this important aspect of the 19th-c newspaper press. Thanks, too, to the always terrific Victorian Commons for the link to this splendid clip about Dickens's experience as a Parliamentary reporter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AROf... #19thc #C19th @rs4vp.org

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Dickens in Parliament

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/09/2025

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

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The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Only a few days left to register for our "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" study day, to be held at the #BritishLibrary on November 7. Information and registration here: pictorial-punch.sciencesconf.org/registration

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Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Une trame commune, trois histoires singulières et des personnages qui circulent entre les films comme ils parcourent la ville. C'est drôle, très poétique, onirique par moments. J'au beaucoup aimé. #LaTrilogiedOslo

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